Pixie haircut: check.
Pink girly-girl dress: check
White bobby socks: check
Black patent leather shoes: check
This is how my mother dressed me
for Sunday School when I was a pre-schooler.
She posed me for the photo too.
So ladylike and demure!
But this is how I dressed myself every day --
Pants: check
Jacket: check
Saddle shoes: check
My brother's cowboy hat: check
Missing from this photo of my ensemble:
my brother's toy holster set
with its silver six-shooter revolvers
"Howdy, pardner!"
And here I am riding the range
on the red ride 'em pony that
my father made for me.
I'll tell you how he made it
in my next post.
And today, how do we dress ourselves?
ReplyDeleteLove these.
ReplyDeleteWho needs Annie Oakley? But I must admit you also make a cute pixie!
ReplyDeleteI agree, you did make a cute pixie :-)
ReplyDeleteWell Meowdy there.
ReplyDeleteAnd to think your parents didn't even suspect.
Great fashion shots!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't as tomboyish as you, but I remember my mom complaining that I snubbed dolls and 'girlie' things.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, our mother's though alike!
ReplyDeleteOMG Love these!
ReplyDeleteI especially love how cool those shoes were when you dressed yourself!!
XOXO
What a cutie!
ReplyDeleteWell, you look adorable in all three pictures!
ReplyDeleteWhat sweet photos of your childhood, and to have a father who would make a red pony for you is so precious.
ReplyDeleteLol
ReplyDeleteThese old photos made my day. I laughed out loud at your mom's barbie outfit. It's so precious, and probably rare as your preference was so not that.
ReplyDeleteoh cod, dee mum sed her mum used to take her and her bestie to git a pixie cut eberry summer cuz they wood always go swimming dee time and her mum did not want to deal wif her snarley and tangled hair screaming when it had to be untangled.
ReplyDeleteHow utterly adorable! I remember the 1960's fashions for girls all too well.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that your parents weren't shocked when you came out...
Cheers, baby dyke!
@ e -- My mother definitely had her suspicions and was not surprised. My unobservant father, however, was completely clueless so it came as quite a shock to him. But everyone adjusted!
ReplyDeleteLovelys photographs of these joyfulls moments. Sure the time passed a lot. I can see It in the photographs. But you now that those moments of children were great, were good, were satisfactory and blessings for you. This rememberings then are the best. Have a very nice day, and really a very nice complete month.
ReplyDeleteRide ’em, cowgirl! You look so much more comfortable and natural in your own selection. And you sure were adorable. Ah, mothers! Cool red ride ’em pony.
ReplyDeleteHello Debra, You have been hiding these adorable pictures from us--you could have had your own caption contest! Just the other day I was at my friends' for Chinese New Year and there was a girl on television with a short haircut, and I was explaining to their daughter what a pixie was--that was the exact word I used!
ReplyDelete--Jim
Look at you, a cute little Buckaroo! Did you ever get a real pony?
ReplyDeleteBest laught of the week. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cutie, with or without six-shooter.
ReplyDeleteI grew up being a Backseat Buckaroo! Dad would wrangle us into the car and...yeehaw-ing we would go. Sometimes a plan, sometimes just riding the range until some history or weird attraction revealed itself!! ðŸ¤
ReplyDeleteJust adorable!
ReplyDeleteFun pictures and a walk down memory lane. Our mothers dressed us very similarly; but through the week and or when I could dress myself, I was still in dresses with my saddles. Mom made 99% of my little dresses and I always loved them. Cute little red pony.
ReplyDeleteThe dresses in the earlier era look fantastic
ReplyDeleteLovely photos of you, but I like the fact that you already had your very own ideas of fashion when young.
ReplyDelete@ Tundra Bunny -- No, I never had a real pony. But I did have a stuffed, blue polka dot pony with blue yarn hair that I called Pedro. My Mom bought it for me at a craft table at a local Community Tea in our town.
ReplyDeleteI looked just like that first photo too but I remember wearing white gloves! Who makes kids wear white gloves? LOL!
ReplyDeleteI love these old pictures.
ReplyDelete@ Kay G -- I had a little pair of white gloves too, along with a tiny cotton handkerchief embroidered with my first initial, both of which were to be carried in a tiny little purse I carried when a wee bit older. I just shake my head now. I remember that the gloves fastened with a tiny pearl button as well.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see how a fashion icon started out. Loved seeing these. Thanks for sharing, Debra.
ReplyDeleteMy little sister was born in the fifties and your church outfit is how our mon dressed her for Easter. But we wore slacks and shorts out to play.
ReplyDeleteGo West, young woman!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at the first picture and remembering all those things around you. The wire garden fence. The trellis. The white knobs to attach the wire to the house. The good ol' days.
ReplyDeleteYou were cute.
ReplyDeleteYou were such a pretty child! Thanks for sharing those pictures. They made me think of when I was a child too.
ReplyDeleteLove these, I love all old photos
ReplyDeleteI remember being dressed like that for church on Sunday, and on Easter it was a new outfit from top to bottom.
ReplyDeleteDeb, you were (and still are) so stinking cute in your Dress Up or your Cowgirl garb! I love it. Did your Mom give you grief about the cowboy outfits?
ReplyDelete@ Busy Bee Suz -- No, I don't remember my Mom giving me any grief about my own choice of clothing. At least, not when I was small. As a teenager, she wouldn't let me wear jeans though. Of course, that marked me as an outcast as school but it was just one reason among many, so what the hell. I didn't fight her on the jeans issue because I had other things I needed to mount an active resistance to and my Mom was my ally on those issues.
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I, too, would rather be the cowboy instead of the primp girl. I wasn't into dresses either.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day.
Love that cheeky smirk in the 2nd picture - like you are plotting some mischief.
ReplyDeletesooo sweet !!!!!!
ReplyDeletemakes me laugh specially your effort she put in you to look lady like lol
i can imagine so well in next dressing instead of your cute brother :)
yes it some effort for some ladies to look like ladies include me lol
Cool kid.
ReplyDelete"I gotta be me. I gotta be free."
ReplyDeleteYou sure were a cute little girl all dressed up. The next two pictures are definitely more "YOU".
ReplyDeleteCute pics... I had MaryJane's as well that I wore to church. The rest of the time I was in the saddle shoes. I wore them for years. Even with jeans into my 40s... I kept them a lot longer in case there was a chance to ride a horse. They were the only shoes I owned that were good for horseback riding. My boots were long gone.
ReplyDeleteGreat style. You are either born with it or you are not.
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